When Iris Doreen Vickers was born on 19 June 1916, in Rossburgh, Durban, EThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, her father, Ned Vickers, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Royston, was 35. She married Jurgens Hendrik Greeff on 27 July 1940, in Durban, Natal, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 3 August 1979, in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 63.
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Founding of Afrikaner Broederbond, a secret, exclusively male and white Protestant organization in South Africa dedicated to the advancement of Afrikaner interests.
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.
English: occupational name for the servant of a vicar (see Vicker ). It may also represent an elliptical form of a topographic name. Compare Parsons .
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac á Bhiocair or Irish Mac an Bhiocaire; see McVicar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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